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The rapid advancement of digital technology has fundamentally transformed social structures, creating new forms of inequality and social stratification. The digital divide has emerged as a critical sociological phenomenon that reflects and reinforces existing social hierarchies while creating new patterns of inclusion and exclusion. This study examines the relationship between digital transformation and social stratification, analyzing how digital access, literacy, and participation contribute to contemporary forms of social inequality. The research investigates the mechanisms through which digital divides reproduce and transform traditional class structures. This sociological inquiry employs a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative survey data from 500 households across different socioeconomic strata with qualitative ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with 40 participants. The study utilizes Pierre Bourdieu's theory of capital and Anthony Giddens' structuration theory as analytical frameworks. The findings reveal three distinct digital classes: the "digitally privileged" (25%), "digitally struggling" (45%), and "digitally excluded" (30%). Digital capital significantly correlates with traditional forms of capital (economic, cultural, and social), creating compound advantages for privileged groups. The study demonstrates that digital transformation both reinforces existing inequalities and creates new forms of social differentiation. Digital transformation has become a new dimension of social stratification that intersects with traditional inequality patterns. The digital divide represents not merely a technological gap but a fundamental social divide that requires comprehensive sociological understanding and policy intervention to ensure equitable social development.

Language and society are very closely related, this relationship includes age and social status which mutually influence language, voice color and accent for each language speaker. Sociolect (from the words social and dialect) or social dialect is a language variation associated with a particular social group. Sociolect occurs in various groups of society according to social class, age and occupation. Language differences between upper class and lower class society, teenagers and old people, doctors and lawyers, are examples of social dialect. This research aims to describe the use of sociolectic language variations in communication between the Bugis-Makassar community, Minasa Upa Village, Rappocini District, Makassar City. The data in this research are all everyday language utterances in communication that are identified as using sociolect. Meanwhile, the data source used is the Bugis-Makassar community who live in Minasa Upa Village, Rappocini District, Makassar City. Data collection techniques include; observation techniques, recording techniques and note-taking techniques. The data analysis technique is carried out in an interpretative descriptive manner, namely data that has been collected on a device, listened to and recorded, then identified and analyzed in depth by sorting and selecting information according to the research focus, namely the various forms of sociolect in communication among the Bugis-Makassar community. Based on the results of the research, the researchers found 16 data on sociolectic language variations, especially conversations in terms of age level, nobility level, and education level, with details of 8 data variations of colloquial language, 2 data variations of slang language, and 6 data variations of vulgar language.

The purpose of this research is to find out about the study of social society in the perspective of social groups and social stratification, humans are social beings, which means that they cannot be separated from other creatures or cannot be separated from other social beings. In this world humans live with groups as they are called social groups. And within a social group there are many different layers of society, this is usually called social   stratification. The existence of differences in the layers of society has an impact on the life of the community itself. society has a very big role so that it can be said the success or failure of a role of social strata in achieving goals.